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Opinion
Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go
When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to…
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Opinion
To The Mom Who Doesn’t Want to Send Her Kids to School
It’s back-to-school season and some parents aren’t happy about that. Take the example of Rousmery Negrón, a single mom of…
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Opinion
On His Birthday, Milton Friedman Would Be Happy
I think that Milton Friedman would be happy. I can’t know for certain, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist passed away…
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Opinion
The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More
The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases…
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Opinion
Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools
Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’…
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Opinion
Loosening Youth Employment Regulations Empowers Teens
My 16-year-old daughter just got her first part-time job, working at a local coffee shop. She comes home beaming after…
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Opinion
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as…
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In Education
Two ‘Mompreneurs’ Created a Forest School That Reaches Thousands
It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest…
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Opinion
Why Youth Social Media Bans Are a Bad Idea
A teenage boy is scrolling through his Instagram account one night. He notices that a friend has posted a distressing…
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Opinion
More School Districts Ban ChatGPT. Here’s Why That’s A Bad Idea
Humans have a complicated relationship with new technologies. We generally appreciate the ways in which they improve our lives in…
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Opinion
The (Further) Case for the Free Market in Education
In 1964, Leonard Read wrote a powerful essay celebrating the free market in education. Read, who founded FEE nearly two…
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Opinion
New Study Shows the Striking Correlation Between School Attendance and Youth Suicides
A lot of us likely remember the glee we felt as children at the onset of summer vacation, followed by…
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Opinion
5 Surprising Facts About Microschooling
One of the most popular and fastest-growing educational trends today is microschooling. Microschools are intentionally small, mixed-age, K-12 learning communities…
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Opinion
To Fight the Youth Anxiety Crisis, Look to Alternative Education Models
High rates of youth anxiety and depression have been a concern for years, and the problem has only worsened. The…
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Opinion
Why Microschools Can Be an Ideal Learning Environment for Neurodiverse Kids
A common criticism regarding microschools, learning pods, unschooling approaches and other non-traditional educational models is that they don’t work well…
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